CD 1-6:
Symphonies & String Symphonies

CD 7 & 8:
Piano Concertos

CD 9:
Violin Concertos

CD 10 & 11:
Piano Quartets & Sextet

CD 12-14:
String Quartets & Quintets

CD 15 & 16:
Sonatas for Violin, Cello & Piano

CD 17-19:
Organ Works

CD 20:
Piano Works

CD 21-23:
Serenade, Duets & Songs

CD 24:
Overtures

CD 25:
A Midsummer Night's Dream

CD 26 & 27:
Der Onkel aus Boston

CD 28:
Heimkehr aus der Fremde

CD 29:
Die erste Walpurgisnacht

CD 30:
Athalia

CD 31 & 32:
Elias

CD 33 & 34:
Paulus

CD 35 & 36:
Psalms

CD 37-43:
Sacred Choral Works

CD 44-49:
Piano Works

CD 50:
Concerto and Piano Works

CD 51:
Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Orchestra in D minor, MWV O4 (Double Concerto)

CD 52:
Piano Trios

CD 53:
String Quartets & Fugues

CD 54:
String Quartet & Octet for Strings

CD 55:
String Quartet & Clarinet Sonata

CD 56:
Lieder

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was born in Hamburg in 1809 and died in Leipzig at the age of 38. He was very early musically gifted. Mendelssohn performed in public at the age of 9 and composed already from the age of 11. As a pupil of Friedrich Zelter, who was a friend of Goethe, Mendelssohn composed at the age of 17 his first masterpiece: the Overture to the Midsummer Night's Dream.

This is included in the extensive CD box as well as a large number of other known or less known pieces by him. The String Quartet in F Minor Op. 80 - written in memory of his beloved sister Fanny - which was recorded in this collection by the Aurora String Quartet is undoubtedly one of his most beautiful works. The Gächinger Kantorei with Helmuth Rilling, the Bach Collegium Stuttgart, the Bartholdy Piano Quartet, the Heidelberger Sinfoniker with Thomas Fey, Ana-Marija Markovina and other renowned interpreters and orchestras can also be heard.